Heterogeneous structure across the source regions of the 1968 Tokachi-Oki and the 1994 Sanriku-Haruka-Oki earthquakes at the Japan trench revealed by an ocean bottom seismic survey

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 132, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 89-104

  Hayakawa, Tadaaki ^a   Kasahara, Junzo ^a   Hino, Ryota ^b   Sato, Toshinori ^c   Shinohara, Masanao ^a   Kamimura, Aya ^a   Nishino, Minoru ^b   Sato, Takeshi ^c   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; Japan trench; P wave structure; Plate coupling; Subduction zone; Water

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE; HETEROGENEITY; MOMENT TENSOR; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037201232     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(02)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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